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The radical claim that a people get to write their own next chapter.
UN charterEnshrined as a right in the 1945 founding text
Wilson's pitchHis 1918 Fourteen Points popularized it after WWI
Border makerBirthed dozens of nations from collapsing empires
Double edgeSame principle fuels both liberation and secession wars
Still pendingCatalonia, Kurdistan, Tibet keep the question open